Dec 12, 2019
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DIY CLEANING SOLUTIONS
Instead of buying harmful chemicals in plastic bottles, try these make at home cleaning products
https://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/green-living/natural-cleaning-recipes
https://wellnessmama.com/6244/natural-cleaning/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/12-homemade-cleaning-products-that-really-really-work_n_57853926e4b0e05f0523a9db
“ BRING YOUR OWN “ KIT
Our Club made Bring Your Own kits, to take with you when you go out so that you can say no to single use plastics and use your own. (just put the used items in your BYO bag to bring home to wash, and reuse again and again and again and again and again
Scrap fabric Reusable Cutlery Reusable Straw Reusable Cup
For our November club meeting, we talked about plastic pollution in our oceans and waterways.
Have you read about the prediction that there will be more plastic in our oceans than fish??? SCARY!
What can we do? USE LESS PLASTIC
DO you need that plastic bag? Plastic water bottle? Plastic straw? Plastic cup? plastic egg carton? If you are shopping, bring your own bags and containers, make purchases with less plastic packaging, skip a produce bag, buy loose fruits and vegetables instead of pre packaged ones. Bring your own cutlery and take out containers with you so that you don’t need to use plastic when you are eating out.
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COMPOST NOW TOUR
TODAY we visited @compostnowga to see what happens to our school’s compost. We got to learn about the process of nutrient recycling (ie compositing ) and observe the differences in each stage of this process (which takes about 8-10 months!)
The food waste (and compostable waste) that we have saved from landfills (so far 32,000 lbs!!!!!) is being “recycled” into nutrient rich soil that we use in our thriving school garden. The kids loved climbing the mountains of compost and identifying and pulling out contaminants (plastic bags, foil, a toothbrush, produce stickers). They even found a stack of trays from our cafeteria!
Thank you COMPOST NOW GA for hosting us and working with us to recycle nutrients and keep our compostable waste out of landfills !
Cloud Dukes, our Compost Now connection, hanging with the kids/
Compost that has just arrived, we found contaminates in this bin : plastic gloves, plastic wrap, and a plastic to go cup top.
This is the nutrient rich soil, the result of composting - compost!
We found a stack of our compostable cafeteria trays!
Foil contamination!
More contamination the kids pulled out - a toothbrush, plastic wrapper, milk carton, plastic cup - did you know that the compost now team pulls out, by hand, items that cannot be composted ? That is a lot of work - we could help them out by keeping these items out of our bins!
Steam from the pile - steam is the byproduct of organisms breaking down organic matter (food and compostable waste) !
Examining the final product - compost, nutrient rich soil!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On Monday we presented a poster about our Sustainable Cafeteria Initiative at Fernbank at the Break the Cycle Conference at Emory University. AT the conference, students and faculty from a variety of colleges and universities participate in developing projects that will Break the Cycle of Children’s Environmental Health Disparities to promote health equity for all children.
GO GREEN CLUB MEETING DECEMBER: PLASTICS!
Have you ever noticed how plastic is EVERYWHERE ? (straws, packaging, single use cutlery, cups, take out containers, packaging, toys.. look around your house, look around your school your work, any store you visit)How can we reduce our use?What happens to plastic when we "throw it away"?
We had 3 projects for the students to work on:
1. "plastic ocean snow globes" MORE OCEAN LESS PLASTIC Inspired by the 5gyres organization : https://www.5gyres.org/
Students added plastic pieces (from: grocery bags, food packaging, drink labels, styrofoam cafeteria trays) to jars that we have collected and filled it with colored water to represent plastic in an ocean, and plastic in our environment.
2. plastic whale - we have been collecting plastic bottles and containers at school (it is amazing how many have been used !) and we are using them to create a whale art piece.
3. makers station (the kids favorite) using cartons, cardboard rolls, bottle tops, tape, and other packaging materials, the students came up with some inventive and amazing creations
this is the video we watched at our meeting:
Our green club members collected tons of materials from home to reuse/repurpose. It’s eye opening to realize how much packaging we collected - containers, sleeves, holders, cushioning. Why does lettuce have to come in a hardy plastic box?
Today we used all of this STUFF to build robots, cars, fishing rods, plastic dogs, jewelry and jewelry boxes, swords, shields, boats, binoculars, towers, homes for pets, rockets with rocket boosters,and a whole bunch of crazy cool creations !